wp-security-secrets

To audit WordPress plugins for hardcoded secrets, scan the source code to detect hardcoded API keys, weak randomness in tokens, and insecure credential storage patterns to reduce security risks across your codebase.

Insecure credential handling in WordPress themes involves improper password storage and hardcoded keys. It is detected by enforcing checks for proper WordPress API usage for password hashing and verifying secure cookie flags.

To check if your WordPress plugin logs secrets, apply logging safeguards that flag credentials and secrets in logs or debugging output, ensuring sensitive data is identified for redaction before deployment.

Yes, you can integrate this security audit into CI pipelines and pre-release workflows to identify and remediate insecure cookies and hardcoded secrets before submitting your plugin to WordPress.org.

Yes, the audit checks for weak randomness in token generation and confirms that password hashing utilizes modern PHP hashing functions and proper WordPress APIs for secure credential storage.

The best way to remediate insecure cookie flags in WordPress plugin code is to enforce secure cookie flags during pre-release code reviews, ensuring appropriate storage options are used for credentials and sessions.